Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#181
peter,seafrance was state ownd acording to rumor,an unfair advantage so say p&o.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#182
Sealink was originally the brand name for the ferry services of British Rail, the following from Wiki....
On 27 July 1984 the UK Government sold Sealink UK Ltd to Bermuda based Sea Containers for £66m. The company was renamed Sealink British Ferries. 7 years later, In 1991 Sea Containers sold Sealink British Ferries to Stena Line. The sale excluded the operations of Hoverspeed, the Isle of Wight services and the share in the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, as well as the Port of Heysham. The new Swedish owners changed the company name to Sealink Stena Line then again a few years later to Stena Sealink Line.
In 1996 the Sealink name disappeared when the UK services were re branded as Stena Line. The agreement with the SNCF on the Dover-Calais route also ended at this time and the French run Sealink services were rebranded as SeaFrance.
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